Career
She teaches courses in Asian Studies as a full professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and is director of the University"s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She was President of the American Association for Asian Studies from 2005 to 2006. Born on 7 June 1943, she received her Bachelor of Arts and Dip.Ed. from the University of Sydney.
In 1966 she received an East-West Center grant to study for her Master of Arts in history at the University of Hawaii.
Subsequently, she went on to complete her Doctor of Philosophy in Southeast Asian history at Cornell University.
